diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 19fd0d58..20c0d6d0 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -271,11 +271,7 @@ if(LOVR_ENABLE_HEADSET AND LOVR_USE_OCULUS)
   if(NOT LOVR_OCULUS_PATH)
     message(FATAL_ERROR "LOVR_USE_OCULUS requires the LOVR_OCULUS_PATH to be set to the location of the Oculus Desktop SDK (LibOVR) folder")
   endif()
-  if(CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE STREQUAL "Release")
-    set(OCULUS_BUILD_TYPE "Release")
-  else()
-    set(OCULUS_BUILD_TYPE "Debug")
-  endif()
+  set(OCULUS_BUILD_TYPE "Release")
   if(CMAKE_SIZEOF_VOID_P EQUAL 8)
     set(OCULUS_ARCH "x64")
   else()